Sunday, 4 May 2014

Four killed in well trying to retrieve bucket in Cross Rivers State

Very strange! Four men including two brothers drowned in a well in their compound at Ogoja
Road, Ikom in Cross River State, while trying to retrieve a bucket that fell into the well.

According to a Vanguard report, the first person to enter the well was
John Ushie,
who lived in the compound. While preparing to go to work that day, he
went to the well in the compound to fetch water but the bucket he was
using to draw water fell in the well. He thought it was a good idea to
try to retrieve the bucket but ended up drowning when he jumped into the
well.

His brother, Boniface, who was not around when the incident occurred, rushed home and jumped into the
well to rescue his brother but also downed in the process.

When Boniface didn't come out, another neighbor jumped in to try to
rescue the two brothers and he too drowned. When the landlord of the
house, Eyung Ebam, saw what had
happened, he too jumped into the well to rescue the drowned men
and...yes, he also drowned. Sounds like something from 'Tales By
Moonlight' but apparently this really happened. Continue...
From Vanguard
“It was at this point that nobody was willing to get into the
well and the National Drug Law Enforcement, NDLEA, officials who were
mounting a road block close to the house called the Fire Service and
they arrived soon ”, an eye witness told Sunday Vanguard.

The eye witness explained that when the Fire Service men arrived, one of them jumped
into the well with a rope with which he tied the landlord who was the
last person to drown in order to pull him out. “He tied the rope around
his chest region and gradually his colleagues dragged him out but when
he got close to the point they wanted to grab him and pull him out, the
rope slipped and he went down again hitting the others inside which may
have eventually killed everyone inside,” the neighbour said.

The
four bodies were pulled out by the Fire Service men and taken to County
Hospital, Ikom Four Corners and the victims confirmed dead by Dr. Ukwam,
the medical doctor, there. An official of the Cross River State Fire
Service, Ikom, Mt Linus Ework, said he got a distress call at about 7
am and he and his men rushed to the scene to rescue the victims but “it
was unfortunate that it was a little too late as three of them were
pulled out dead”.

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